Individual tooth brush holder



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INDIVIDUAL TOOTH BRUSH HOLDER Filed Dec, 9, 1936 Patented May 24, 1938 vUNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE I 2,118,465 INDIVIDUAL TOOTH BRUSH HOLDERHenry B. Grose, Augusta, Ga. Application December-5, 1936, Serial No.115,050

4 Claims.

This invention relates to toothbrush holders and'has for its object to,provide a comparatively simple-and inexpensive device of this characteradapted to be suspended from a wall or other 5 suitable supportand bymeans of which the individual tooth brushes of different members of afamily may be properly identified and conveniently supported when not inuse so as to avoid confusion and promiscuous use of the differentbrushes.

A further object of the invention is to provide a tooth brush holdercomprising an attaching plate having its intermediate portion at thelower longitudinal edge thereof provided with spaced suspension hooksadapted to receive individual tooth brushes and provided at its oppositeends with laterally projecting ledges or shelves for supporting a tubeof tooth paste or can of powdered dentifrice, said end ledges or shelvesalso serving as guards or shields to prevent accidental displacement ofthe suspended tooth brushes.

A still further object of the invention is generally to improve thisclass of devices so as to increase their utility, durability andefiiciency.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and inwhich similarnumerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in allthe figures of the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an individual tooth brush holderconstructed in accordance with the present invention,

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view taken the line 22 of Figure 1, and

Figure 3 is a perspective view illustrating a modified form of theinvention.

The improved individual tooth brush holder forming the subject-matter ofthe present invention comprises an attaching plate 5 preferably 40formed of metal and substantially rectangular in shape, said attachingplate being reinforced and strengthened by an ornamental outwardlypressed bead 6 conforming to the shape of the plate 5 and spacedinwardly therefrom, as shown. 45 Openings 1 are formed in the upper edgeof the plate at the corners thereof for the reception of screws orsimilar fastening devices, by means of which the plate may beconveniently attached to a wall or other suitable support.

The lower longitudinal edge of the plate 5 is formed with spaced pairsof incisions 8 defining intermediate tongues, the metal between eachpair of incisions being bent or curved upwardly to form suspension hooks9 adapted to receive individual tooth brushes. The incisions 8 extendfrom the lower longitudinaledge of the plate 5 to the adjacent portionof the reinforcing bead B so thatlthe hooks are all confined to thatportion of the plate between the lower edge thereof and the head "6, andthe bead, therefore, serves to re.- inforce and strengthen said hooks attheir points of attachment to the plate.

The face of the plate immediately above the suspension hooks 9 isprovided with a series of panels Ill each adapted to have printedtherein or otherwise represented thereon the names of the individualmembers of the family, certain of the panels having the word Guestprinted thereon, as shown. The panels are so arranged that one of saidpanels will be disposed directly above each suspension hook 9 so thatafter brushing the teeth the user of the tooth brush can suspend thebrush on the hook opposite the panel containing his or her name and thusavoid confusion and promiscuous use of the different tooth brushes. If aguest happens to be at the house, said guest or guests will, of course,suspend their tooth brushes below the panels marked Guest.

The metal constituting the attaching plate at the opposite ends thereofis bent laterally at the lower longitudinal edge of the plate to formspaced supporting ledges or shelves l and H, said ledges or shelvesbeing disposed at substantially right angles to the vertical plane ofthe plate and having their intermediate portion dished or concaved at l2to formv seats for a tube of tooth paste or a can of powdereddentifrice. It will here be noted that the shelves l0 and II not onlyserve to receive and support tubes of tooth paste, dentifrice'and thelike but as said shelves are disposed on opposite sides of thesuspension hooks 9, they form, in efiect, guards or shields and assistin preventing accidental displacement of the tooth brushes from thesuspension hooks. In other Words, inasmuch as the suspension hooks arearranged at the center of the plate and between the supporting shelves,the user of a brush must approach the holder from the front thereof andthe shelves serve to prevent said user from attempting to remove a toothbrush by reaching for his or her tooth brush from either end of theplate which would tend to displace the tooth brushes supported on thehooks adjacent the particular tooth brush to be removed from the holder.Furthermore, these supporting shelves tend to reinforce andstrengthenthe attaching plate and the concaved seats l2 likewisereinforce the metal constituting said shelves.

In Figure 3 of the drawing, there is illustrated a modified form of theinvention in which but a single supporting ledge or shelve I3 isprovided, said shelve being disposed centrally of the supporting plateand the suspension hooks l4 arranged on opposite sides thereof.

It will, of course, be understood that the individual tooth brushsupports may be made in diiferent sizes and shapes and provided with anydesired number of suspension hooks without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A tooth brush holder comprising a supporting plate having acircumferential outwardly pressed reinforcing bead, the plate betweenthe lower longitudinal edge thereof and said reinforcing bead beingprovided with spaced incisions opening through said longitudinal edgeand the material between the incisions being pressed upwardly to formsuspension hooks.

2. A tooth brush holder comprising an attaching plate having anoutwardly pressed circumferential reinforcing bead, the plate betweenthe lower longitudinal edge thereof and said reinforcing bead beingprovided with a plurality of pairs of spaced incisions opening throughsaid 1ongitudinal edge and the material between the incisions of eachpair being bent upwardly to form a suspension hook defining a verticalslot, the fixed end of each hook gradually merging into said reinforcingbead.

3. A tooth brush holder comprising an attaching plate provided withspaced pairs of incisions opening through the lower longitudinal edgethereof and defining straight vertically disposed intermediate tongues,the metal between each pair of incisions being bent upwardly to form asuspension hook.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a tooth brush holder stamped from asingle sheet of metal and comprising an elongated body portion havingits lower longitudinal edge at the opposite ends of the plate bentlaterally and said longitudinal edge between the bent portions of theplate provided with spaced pairs of incisions defining straightvertically disposed tongues, the metal between each pair of incisionsbeing pressed laterally and upwardly to form a suspension hook.

HENRY B. GROSE.

